by Robert Reich.
It's bad enough big money is buying off politicians.
It's also buying off nonprofits that used to be sources of
investigation, information, and social change, from criticizing big
money. Other sources of funding are drying up. Research grants are
waning. Funds for social services of churches and community groups are
growing scarce. Legislatures are cutting back university funding.
Appropriations for public television, the arts, museums, and libraries
are being slashed. So what are non-profits to do? "There's really no
choice," a university dean told me. "We've got to go where the money
is." And more than at any time since the Gilded Age of the late 19th
century, the money is now in the pockets of big corporations and the
super wealthy. So the presidents of universities, congregations, and
think tanks, other nonprofits are now kissing wealthy posteriors as
never before. But that money often comes with strings.
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